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Meanings of emaciation in English

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Extreme weight loss and unnatural thinness due to a loss of subcutaneous fat.

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          Extreme leanness (usually caused by starvation or disease)

                Usage of emaciation in English
                1
                His body was thin and fine and tight, with a healthy emaciation.
                Perdido Street Station
                2
                She's thin almost to the point of emaciation, and pale as milk.
                End of Watch
                3
                Even in her waxy whiteness and unnatural emaciation, her face was good.
                Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness
                4
                This man appeared in tolerable health as to body, his emaciation excepted.
                American Prisoners of the Revolution
                5
                Hard to tell, due to his bruises and emaciation under the rags.
                Changer of Worlds
                6
                He looked like nothing more than a starving itinerant, thin unto emaciation.
                Assail
                7
                Otherwise he would have reduced himself to a condition of positive emaciation!
                The Story of the Herschels, a Family of Astronomers / Sir Willia...
                8
                Appetite and general conditions are usually normal; sometimes there are feebleness and emaciation.
                Mother's Remedies / Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies ...
                9
                It is worth noting that actorly emaciation is a particularly male performance stunt.
                BBC
                10
                My emaciation and sickness increase, as do my love and passion.
                The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1,001 Nights. Vol. 1
                11
                The material seemed to be draped on her tall figure, thin to emaciation.
                The Foolish Virgin
                12
                But the truly frightening thing was the emaciation of his body.
                Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984)
                13
                An 8-year-old male Japanese domestic cat presented with anorexia and emaciation.
                Pubmed
                14
                Death due to bilateral ptthisis with tuberculosis of intestines and mesenteric glands, emaciation.
                The Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Volume 10
                15
                On the other hand, he continued to endure waste and emaciation.
                The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 / Books 8,...
                16
                I glanced at his face, and saw that it was thin to emaciation.
                The Strand Magazine: Vol. 07, Issue 37, January, 1894. / An Illu...
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